Hickory High School - Hickory Nut Yearbook (Hermitage, PA)

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Foreword 1951 - The coming of age edition of the Hickory Township school's yearbook, The Hickory Nut. Graduating classes have sweated, slaved, and worried over it every year since 1930, but their efforts have always been rewarded at the end of the year when a spanking new Hickory Nut made its appearance. This year through the combined efforts of the members of the senior class, we have striven to present the school as a living organism compar- able to a hickory tree. The development of the tree is likened to the steps each member of this year's graduating class went through individually. These steps in order include the roots, the young sapling, the growth of the branches, an important individual branch, and the full grown mature tree. The senior class hope that they have faithfully recorded the school year of 1950-51.

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ur Dedication After a coaching career of five years, Mr. Keith Stoner resigned as coach of the varsity basketball team. Before handing in his resignation, however, Coach Stoner piloted his teams to Mercer County Class A and District 10 championships. Last year was his most successful season, as the Hornets ad- vanced to the P.I.A.A. Western Regional semi-finals before bowing to a strong Pittsburgh-Westinghouse quintet. In order to express our appreciation to Mr. Stoner for establishing our Hickory Hornets as a permanent threat to other county teams, we, the graduating class of 1951, have dedicated our issue of the Hickory Nut to him. We believe it is the highest honor we can bestow upon any individual. Besides serving as head basketball coach, Mr. Stoner also was the assistant football coach. A member of the senior committee, he was present at all the senior meetings and collected the Washington trip money. In the mornings you could usually find him in the ticket office as he was the faculty manager, or making the an- nouncement, All chair crew members report to the gym first period, because he was also adviser of the chair crew. Mr. Stoner has been on the Hickory faculty for five years and teaches health and physical education. Graduated from Slippery Rock College with a Bachelor of Science and Education degree, he did graduate work at the University of Pitts- burgh. A corporal during World War II, he spent four years in the Air Corps, in- cluding eleven months in China. The class of 1951 will always remem- ber Coach Keith Stoner, not only as a teacher and adviser, but as a wonderful friend. 7